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Russians are employing this dastardly new technology called "mines" which no army on earth has encountered before, least of all those of the NATO members like France, Germany and the UK.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"It's not fair because all of nato doctorine is based on fighting uprisings without existing state power or militaries"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 300 Spartans were also better trained. Still got merxied by Xerxes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One thing that never seems to get brought up in discussion of the battle of Thermopylae is that the Spartans also brought ~900 conscripted helots to fight for them (according to Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus estimated it closer to 1000). They were still totally outnumbered (combined forces of the city states was somewhere between 5,200-7,700 men compared to the 120,000 that fought for Persia).

But the bulk of Sparta's army being untrained slaves conscripted into fighting somewhat degrades the idea of this elite fighting force™ that works like 300 like to pretend they were.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that movie is hot fascist garbage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There's so much emphasis on how the Spartans are the dangerous, tough, manly men, the only force that can save the West™ from the removed other.

My favourite scene for this is when Leonidas yells at the Greeks for not being professional soldiers, 'cos IRL some 400 of those would've been from Thebes, which not only also had a professional military, it had a larger and better trained one, and would already have defeated Sparta in battle multiple times by this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I still want to know what level of brainworms would lead to them to smugly making a point, defeating that point extensively and then arriving to the conclusion that their point was absolutely correct. Its like their subconsciousness was trying to correct them mid post to no avail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One thing that I think doesn't get discussed that much is that military aid from NATO allies is great and all but providing tanks to Ukraine (for example) on the face of it, sounds pretty swell but unless troops are trained to operate that particular tank then they will be unable to be efficient and coordinated on the battlefield.

This varies depending on what is being provided. Obviously, for a gun, there's less of a learning curve than a missile battery or a helicopter which is of a significantly different design to what the Ukrainian military is experienced in operating in the theatre of war.

But there's a narrative that has developed in the mainstream audience in the west that you just plop down some additional tanks or what have you and it'll just *work*. But this is war, not some strategy game, and the average person doesn't seem to have any grasp of the realities on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But when I play HOI IV I can just click the button and upgrade the equipment? I think it's you that doesn't get how works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No federation, but aren't mines a war crime because they outlast the war and hurt civilians?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Most of the world agreed to ban mines in the Ottowa Convention, but as usual the countries that really matter (US, Russia, China, etc.) didn't sign it and aren't bound by it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Curious. They claim NATO exists as self defense against a peer enemy, yet their strategies only work against small, relatively defenseless countries!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love soviet tactics, its literally finding out countering western overcomplicated and extremely expensive wunderwaffen with the cheapest shit

super advanced jets? outfly these 9 missiles that we can replace instantly

Long distance stealth bombers? Attach rocket boosters to a plane that scares the US for decades

Its hilarious stalin-approval

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh you're doing some weird thing where you amass all your force in one point in order to cause a breakthrough, which you then push as far as you can? We make deep battle lines and disrupt your logistical capabilities.

Oh you've got super fancy tanks? Have you heard of landmines?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

French aristocrat knights, c. 14th century: “how dare these English peasants shoot me with longbows!!! Where’s their chivalry!!!”

(Actual military history may vary)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"To teach them a lesson I will ride towards them, down this muddy hill while wearing sommuch armour I cannot stand up on my own. What could possibly go wrong?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i know you're doing a bit, but only jousting armour was too heavy to stand in. would be hella shitty to be in full plate if you couldnt move theory-gary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

NATO tactics assume air superiority.

I keep harping on this point again and again because I really cannot get across how fucking stupid it is: YOU DO NOT ASSUME AIR SUPREMACY OVER ANOTHER NATION'S AIRSPACE, YOU FUCKING INCOMPETENT IDIOTS. YOU CANNOT PROJECT AIR POWER 500 MILES DEEP INTO A NATION WITH A COMPREHENSIVE AIR DEFENSE NETWORK, RADARS, AND SAM SITES. YOUR STEALTH TECHNOLOGY IS NOT INVINCIBLE, AND YOUR SHITTY OVERPRICED BULLSHIT F-35 WILL GET SHOT DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND THIS IS WHY YOU REFUSE TO DEPLOY THEM ON ACTUAL FRONTLINES.

Then again, since NATO keeps doubling-down on this idea it just means they're more likely to get fucking annihilated anytime they fight a near-peer in conventional warfare, so critical support to the failson Wunderwaffen generals I guess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sorry but no amount of training on the Ukrainian side is going to make up for Russia producing 2.5 million shells a year, that's just the maths

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They've been taught to duck tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

westoids can't into material conditions even during war

KEK

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like those sweaty tryhards in online shooters that scream slurs and whine about how sniper rifles/grenades/whatever are "no skill" and because they didn't receive an e-honourable e-duel 1v1 with pistols (but only skilled pistols) they won by default while losing wojak-nooo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, except real life.

Well, real life to the Ukrainians. It might as well be a game to the libs cheering it on from their armchairs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wine cave warriors are getting endless murder treats by staying tuned to the war, complete with a bullshit propaganda angle to make them feel like their favorite team is winning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When's it my turn to have a cave of wine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mom says it's my turn in the wine cave. shapiro-poplar

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

maybe-later-honey we're crushing Russia using only 8% of our budget. Never mind the blood. Never mind the bodies of Ukrainians this cave is carved out of.

Wine cave warrior is a fantastic term btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I'm remembering right that commentor went on to give a very optimistic prognosis for the counteroffensive. Arguing that because the first line of Russian defences near Robotyne had breached: Tokmak will be captured imminently, putting the entire Russian logistical network under threat and severing the land bridge to Crimea, which will then lead to the total collapse of Russian military power in southern Ukraine. It's a nice story but one completely divorced from the actual reality of the counteroffensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They're really putting themselves at risk by buying their own bullshit.

According to reddit libs only the first line is actual fighting conscripts then every line behind that is just to shoot retreating russians so once you break through the first line you can casually stroll to Moscow.

Gonna be really hard to explain why they haven't made any progress 6 months after "breaking the line" in the future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

so-true NATO is forcing completely absurd tactics and strategies on the Ukrainians that has cost tens of thousands of lives, and this is why we need to support Ukraine even more with more NATO training and wonderweapons!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"My superior training assumes you punch yourself multiple times in the face."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64855760

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-fight-shovels-ammo-shortage-bakhmut-prigozhin-wagner-rcna73501

There are no mines, it's all just shovels. The Ukrainian forces step on the shovels and get hit in the face. Russian shovel technology is too advanced for NATOists to overcome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, I'm just here thinking "Wait, people think it's not happening quickly?"

I mean, I haven't looked at any maps in a hot minute, but each time I check, it seems Ukraine controls more territory? People get that it's a real war right? "Quick" is relative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People have been brainwormed by the rapid pace of the Iraq war et al where the US took out the air defence the night before landing and steamrolled everything but the republican guard, which they just dumped several kilotonnes of conventional explosive on instead. Once you have S300/400s that prevent deep air penetration things slow down fast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right now it's about a wash, as Ukriane keeps giving up territory in the North and gaining territory in the South, all of it incredibly small.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Who are we dunking on here? That lemming or NATO? Because the lemming is absolutely correct.

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